Vas deferens obstruction due to fibrosis after plug hernioplasty

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-138

  Valenti, Gabriele ^a   Baldassarre, Emanuele ^a,c   Torino, Giovanni ^b  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREMASTER MUSCLE; FIBROSIS; HERNIOPLASTY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAS DEFERENS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; IMPLANTATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FIBROSIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 33645288331     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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